Harini Calamur's Writings
A couple of weeks ago I read an article, think that it was by Swaminathan Anklasaria Aiyer, called Kush and Berry, and looked at what little difference there was between the two. Today, while reading the Guardian online, the headline “Kush and…
Today’s Guardian ran a very good piece on a moral quandry. Doctors in Britain have applied for permission to carry out experiments, that will produce babies with 3 biological parents. The first is the father/sperm. The second and third are mothers/eggs. The…
If a soldier refuses to obey orders, is it Mutiny or an act of conscience? One of the boards’ I am on is currently polarised on the topic. The topic, of course, is a report that states that an American Platoon in…
a) too many chains of command b) no chain of command c) too much verbal communicaiton d) too much stress passed down the chain of command e) not enough stress passed down the chain of command My last month of consulting has…
The first schedule of shooting a “power Trip with Shobhaa De” finished last friday. I have been too pooped to blog. The show carried the who’s who of India. In the first schedule we shot with – Yash Birla – the poor…
today – October 5th – is Shishir’s Birthday. For the second year running his wife managed to surprise him with a party. Last year was an elaborate affair in a bunglow in Madh Island. Shishir resembled a gawking gold fish. Today was…
My company, Cogito TV, has been commissioned by Sahara One to produce a 26 part series for them. The series is called Power Trip with Shobhaa De and it is a show in which she converses with some of the most powerful…
Cogito TV’ s former client’s TVC – trust value and committment – owed us around 10.5 lakhs (rs. one point five million) for films that we produced for them. And they weren’t paying. Atleast not for the last six months. We have…
Yes says the CNN: An unexplained radio signal from deep space could — just might be — contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been…
Laura Bush on whether the top bestselling books list on the New York Times are partisan: I don’t know how they get theirs, because that isn’t always the case on some of the other lists—where Harry Potter is No. 1, 2 and…